Reiser4 released!!!

[technobeast]

Decided to post this here. While I was browsing this morning I noticed at Slashdot a discussion about the new Reiser4 - checked and here's what I saw at www.namesys.com

Reiser4 is released

Reasons why Reiser4 is great for you:
# Reiser4 is the fastest filesystem, and here are the benchmarks.
# Reiser4 is an atomic filesystem, which means that your filesystem operations either entirely occur, or they entirely don't, and they don't corrupt due to half occuring. We do this without significant performance losses, because we invented algorithms to do it without copying the data twice.
# Reiser4 uses dancing trees, which obsolete the balanced tree algorithms used in databases (see farther down). This makes Reiser4 more space efficient than other filesystems because we squish small files together rather than wasting space due to block alignment like they do. It also means that Reiser4 scales better than any other filesystem. Do you want a million files in a directory, and want to create them fast? No problem.
# Reiser4 is based on plugins, which means that it will attract many outside contributors, and you'll be able to upgrade to their innovations without reformatting your disk. If you like to code, you'll really like plugins....
# Reiser4 is architected for military grade security. You'll find it is easy to audit the code, and that assertions guard the entrance to every function.

Read more for it at www.namesys.com
As for me I've been using ReiserFS everytime I've installed Linux and has no reasons to complain so far. Like it, never lost data, and will continue to use it.

It was interesting to see what you PCTT *nix users think???

[greffov]

I still thing what I always thought... seen a reiserfs partition go once, and result in a big bucket with filenames like 001 002 003 etc, so I only use reiserfs now on heavily backupped partitions. For real secure storage I use ext3.

[technobeast]

Dunno greff. Had lots of power outages while using reiserfs...none of them had cost me even one byte of data loss. And seems like v4 has become more and more powerful. So if I have to choose one fs for Linux it would be Reiser (btw I read an opinion of Hans Reiser at Slashdot that he admires XFS and many Fs features if I can say so, are taken from XFS - has anyone tried this? any opinions?)

[greffov]

lol, xfs is a filesystem that is heavy on memory. So you better have some of it.
I just downloaded a new 2.6.8 kernel, so I'm gonna see if I can compile in ReiserFS 4 (which was experimental before).